Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait (2010) is an installation for which I photographed every single object that I own, 3328 different objects.

I had been thinking for a longer time how to address issues of overconsumption and especially all the objects which are produced, and then discarded. While reading Roope Mokka's and Aleksi Neuvonen's book "Olimme kuluttajia" (2009) (translation: "We where consumers") I bumped into the estimate that an average Finnish family owns at least 10 000 different objects. This spark the idea of documenting each object I then owned. What would these objects tell about me? What importance did they have to, if any? What would happen to all of this stuff after me?